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14 July 2017
Women who contract Zika virus when they're pregnant are at risk of the infection spreading to the baby's brain and causing the condition microcephaly. This is how the emergence and recent epidemic of...
21 July 2017
Traffic pollution in European cities can stall children’s brain development and stop them from reaching their full...
20 July 2017
Modern-day chemical engineers have built better batteries equipped with molecular pulleys...
18 July 2017
Researchers at the University of Stanford have found that as oil fields age they can produce up to ten times more...
18 July 2017
Imagine a tiny, thimble-shaped creature, invisible in water - and deadly. Step up, the Irukandji jellyfish!
18 July 2017
The ocean is a noisy place! Underwater acoustics explores what the watery world sounds like and what impact humans are...
18 July 2017
Scientists in Perth, Western Australia are using drones to collect samples from whales to study their health.
18 July 2017
The greatest migration on the planet occurs every day, in the ocean, and vertically.
18 July 2017
Our lives ultimately depend upon some of the smallest life forms on Earth - the constituents of the ocean microbiome.
18 July 2017
Two institutes on opposite sides of the Atlantic developed a joint course to encourage networking between early-career...
18 July 2017
How accurate is the primate science in War of the Planet of the Apes?
18 July 2017
The sea urchin may be a good model for understanding how immune responses work in humans and other vertebrates.
18 July 2017
Scientists in the US have come up with a set of steps which store the energy you expend when you descend, and then give...
18 July 2017
A region of the brain called the intraparietal sulcus becomes more active when volunteers expect to receive a shock.
18 July 2017
Mutations in a single gene can affect whether some bio-luminescent bacteria will make good partners for squid.
18 July 2017
The technology to help astronauts dig holes in the moon makes its way down to earth in the form of the cordless drill.
18 July 2017
A team of real life spidermen at Cambridge University have invented a new, greener, cleaner form of artificial spider...
18 July 2017
US scientists have discovered that a drug that's already licensed for use in pregnancy can block the spread of...
14 July 2017
Named after an expert swordsman
14 July 2017
There's a huge release of new genetic data from the UK Biobank
14 July 2017
Finding associations between proteins provides new clues for dementia
14 July 2017
Is dementia risk genetic?
14 July 2017
Disturbing slow wave sleep patterns of brain activity increase levels of the Alzheimer's protein beta-amyloid in...
14 July 2017
A drug to block Zika virus transmission from a pregnant mother to her unborn baby has been announced by scientists in...
12 July 2017
Fingerprint scanners are all the rage, yet new research shows that this is just the beginning of biometric...